I am not using regular tapes, I am backing up to disk with 14 "psuedo" tapes, there is 210 GB total, so if tape one uses 50GB and tape2 uses 5GB, I still have 155GB left. I originally had dumpcycle and runcycle at 7, I was going to bump it up because amanda was performing full dumps every 2-3 days, A full dump of all servers is about 60GB, if amanda does this more than 3 times in 14 days I will run out of space and it seems amanda does do a level 0 more often that 7 days on almost every server, no matter what I put for runcycle or dumpcycle
--- Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 January 2003 13:24, Marvin Davenport wrote: > >I am using disk storage with 14 "tapes", amanda keeps filling up > > the disk by doing toooo many full dumps, I have set what I > > thought would be a 2 week full dump schedule, but you can see on > > disk listed I am getting a full dump every 3 days? > > > >amanda.conf parameters > >dumpcycle 14 days > >runspercycle 14 > >tapecycle 14 > > The above combines to mean that you will be, if amanda works as you > would like it to, be overwriting your only full backup with a new > recording. It could be bad, and then you are out of luck as you've > just overwritten the only copy you had. > > If you only have 14 tapes, and acquiring more isn't an instant > option, then I would reduce the dumpcycle and runspercycle to maybe > 7 each, which would allow access to one older generation of backup > in the event the most recent is foobar. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I > have the tape capacity to do it, so dumpcycle and runspercycle are > 5 here, with a tapecycle of 28 tapes on the wall. > > This might also be an effect of amandas useage balancing scheduler, > looking for enough data to be worth the effort of fireing up the > drive. One of the reasons I have a 5 day cycle is that this uses > somewhere between 2/3rds and 4/5ths of a tape per run, on a 4 gig > tape (dds2) using software compression. But thats my personal > preference of course. Your list below doesn't indicate how big the > level 0's are, or how big your tapes are, making it difficult to > advise in more concrete terms. > > > >amdamin output > >2002-12-28 s6a.host1.com /mnt/s1a/c 0 DCA_TAPE01 > > 25 OK > >2002-12-29 s6a.host1.com /mnt/s1a/c 1 DCA_TAPE03 > > 26 OK > >2002-12-29 s6a.host1.com /mnt/s1a/c 1 DCA_TAPE04 > > 26 OK > >2002-12-31 s6a.host1.com /mnt/s1a/c 0 DCA_TAPE05 > > 26 OK > >2003-01-03 s6a.host1.com /mnt/s1a/c 1 DCA_TAPE06 > > 27 OK > >2003-01-04 s6a.host1.com /mnt/s1a/c 1 DCA_TAPE07 > > 27 OK > >2003-01-05 s6a.host1.com /mnt/s1a/c 0 DCA_TAPE08 > > 27 OK > >2003-01-06 s6a.host1.com /mnt/s1a/c 1 DCA_TAPE09 > > 27 OK > > -- > Cheers, Gene > AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M > Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M > 99.21% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
